by Carmen Van Kerckhove
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Carmen hosts a roundtable discussion on white people and hip hop with Jason Tanz and Harry Allen. Jason is the author of Other People’s Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America. He is senior editor at Fortune Small Business magazine, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Fortune, Spin, and [...]

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by Carmen Van Kerckhove
If you follow geek news at all, you’ll probably have heard by now of Twitter.
What is it? Well, depends whom you ask.
Mitch Joel calls it permission-based stalking. Rafe Needleman describes it like this: “Twitter is an online service that enables you to broadcast short messages to your friends or “followers.” It also [...]

Not Just Fetishists and Race Traitors:
Challenging the Ways We Look At Interracial Relationships
Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007
Time: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time / 2:00 p.m. Pacific time
Length: 60 minutes
Fee: $19.99 for either the live teleseminar or recording

Even after John and Yoko, and Heidi and Seal, interracial relationships are still considered taboo. Society’s discomfort is especially obvious [...]

Carmen is joined by guest co-host L’Heureux Lewis, who is also known as Dumi. Dumi is completing his PhD in Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. A native of West Haven, CT he received a Bachelor’s from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA. In the fall, he will begin as an Assistant Professor [...]

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Carmen is joined by guest co-host Hadji Williams in this episode. Hadji Williams has spent over 15 years in the advertising and marketing worlds at Chicago and New York agencies great and small, including BBDO and FootSteps Group. Williams is also an educator, having taught over 20 introductory and advanced advertising courses at Columbia College [...]

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Carmen is joined by guest co-host Kai Chang in this episode. Kai is a technology entrepreneur and progressive activist living and working in southwestern Connecticut and New York City. Kai was born in Buffalo, New York, grew up in Montreal, Canada, and Los Angeles, California, and attended college in San Diego, Hong Kong, and the [...]

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Just a quick heads-up: The latest episode is done, but it’s been a busy weekend for me, and I won’t be able to finish editing and posting it till later this week. So look for it probably on Thursday. Thanks for your patience, everyone!